(n) a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century, Syn.Vaudois
(n) Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918), Syn.Kurt Waldheim
n. pl. [ So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect about a. d. 1170. ] (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea. [ 1913 Webster ]
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